If you do live webinars but do not want to pay for premium broadcasting service, you can deploy a dedicated video broadcasting software for your system. Mac owners can use CamTwist, a powerful and free broadcasting solution. It's feature packed with flexible video streaming options providing intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface. You must have a Mac Pro system to use this software.
HD ready - Whether it's standard video format or you want to broadcast in 1080i or 720p HD format, CamTwist supports all of them out of the box. Before switching to HD mode, make sure your Mac system has enough processing power to sustain smooth broadcast without any flicker.
HDMI support - CamTwist works flawlessly with HDMI capture cards with up to 3 cards support at a given time. This essentially means that you can broadcast 3 separate video streams from 3 different HDMI capture cards simultaneously.
In-built video effects - This feature is very popular among CamTwist community. With over dozens of special video affects you can provide a unique and entertaining stream to the viewers. You can either apply a single effect at a given time or you can queue multiple effects to generate a continuously transforming video stream.
Custom video effects - You can also create your own video effects through Quartz Composer to give a totally unique touch to the video stream. There's no limit on the number of custom special effects that can be imported and applied on the video streams.
Live streaming - CamTwist supports all major web-based live video streaming services like LiveStream, Ustream.tv, Justin.tv and BlogTV.
Friday, December 30, 2011
How To Turn Your Mac Into A Video Broadcasting Machine
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
How To Privately Share And Host Videos
Video sharing is one of the most popular social media activities among users today. Although you can use Facebook and Google+ to host and share your videos, but essentially they're social networking sites with photo and video sharing as one of the attributes. Sometimes novice users are not able to correctly configure the privacy settings that may result in leakage of private videos resulting in embarrassment. If you regularly share videos with your closed ones, you need a dedicated service for the same.
Givit is a simple yet feature-packed private video sharing and hosting service. With a simple and fast interface, it lets you host and share your videos securely with your friends and loved ones. It is also available for iPhone users so that you can share and view videos with ease while on the go.
While sharing videos through Givit, you have full control over the object and you can lock it so that users cannot reshare it further to their network. Givit can be accessed from desktop application, web interface or through your smartphone device. The in-built comment system lets the viewers leave their remarks on the shared video page. Of course, as the owner of the video, you can fully moderate these comments.
Whenever you share a fresh video, Givit automatically backup a copy in the background. While uploading a video you can either submit a file from your desktop, or you can directly record from a camcorder or through your smartphone camera. If you want faster uploads make sure you install the Givit desktop client.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
How To Organize Your Social Media Contacts With Ease
With each new social media service popping up on the web, our contact list is increasing at fast pace. Sometimes it is unmanageable due to the sheer volume of contacts falling in different categories. Collecting all these contacts in a single file is not a big task, but organizing them on the basis of various attributes makes things difficult. Organizing alone does not help unless you have a mechanism to quickly access them on different devices with ease.
And that's where social contacts organizer Flup comes handy. It's a free and powerful social media contacts manager that makes your life easy by automatically organizing your contacts from various social media services like Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
After creating your free account, you can import all your contacts from these services through OAuth authentication. The categorization is completely automated which can be edited and altered at your will. The intelligent tagging algorithm segments these contacts on the basis of their authority and interests. This makes finding contacts much easier for you. You can also access them easily on your smartphone through smart syncing which enables you to get the most updated contact list.
You also get quick contact 'Flup' buttons for your web site and blog through which visitors can easily contact you. This keeps your contact information private and at the same time makes it easy for your audience to connect with you.
Monday, December 26, 2011
How To Set Up Web-Based Telephony System For Your Business
Setting up a reliable telephony system for a company can be a headache especially if the volume of staff is high and they are dispersed across the globe. Apart from traditional fixed lines, nowadays companies are also looking for alternatives. One of the trends is deployment of private virtual phone system accessible through various devices connected through internet. It's not only easily manageable but also saves good amount of money. 
OpenVBX is a powerful, open-source and web-based virtual telephony system made for businesses. It can be easily deployed on regular web servers as well as on a cloud system that supports LAMP stack. OpenVBX has a powerful configuration manager where you can design the hierarchy of your communication system and can segment it as per your needs.
The drag 'n drop call flow designer makes it very easy to design automated systems for various business processes. It has a rich set of APIs to integrate the telephony system with various web-based processes. Since you can easily access it's interface code (CSS), you can have completely customized theme that seamlessly integrate with your existing systems.
You can deploy text-to-speech, call recording, voicemail, call-conferencing, automated IVRs, SMS engine and many more features through OpenVBX. It also has a robust telephony client for iPhone users. There are dozens of plugins for OpenVBX to extend the functionality of this powerful software. These plugins are actively developed and supported by the community. A lively community forum ensures you get answers to your problem quickly.
If you're looking for a low-cost, robust and manageable web-based telephony system for your business, OpenVBX is one of the best solutions.
Friday, December 23, 2011
10 Best Captcha Plugins For WordPress
WordPress has a fairly strong mechanism to deal with spammers and trolls. Yet we need some specialized plugins to deal with this problem. The most popular anti-Spam plugin Akismet is used on almost every WordPress blog. However, some trolls easily bypass this security and create unpleasant experience for the blog owner as well as for the community as a whole. Although there's no silver bullet to stop them, but captcha systems does act as a deterrent to a certain extent. Here's the collection of best captcha plugins for WordPress powered web sites and blogs.
WP-reCAPTCHA - It is perhaps the most popular captcha plugin with a large user base. It uses an image of distorted words that cannot be read easily from OCR software. This significantly reduces flaming or junk entries from spammers and trolls.
Contact Form With Captcha - It's one of the best plugins for implementing contact forms integrated with captcha system. It has a simple configuration system with editable email identifiers to create filters in your email system to better manage spam (if any) and normal entries.
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam - This is yet another popular captcha plugin used with forms. It easily integrates with comment, login and custom contact forms. SI CAPTCHA also supports WordPress multi-site installation and BuddyPress. You can also configure it to hide captcha system from logged in users.
Key CAPTCHA - This plugin is also quite popular among WordPress community. It easily integrates with comments, login and various custom forms. Key CAPTCHA also uses unique captcha monetization system (optional) that can be used to make some money. It can be used in two mode viz., Flash and HTML5 and is fully compatible with BuddyPress.
Sweet Captcha - This unique plugin employs a different approach in presenting captcha challenge. The visitor has to answer a question by dragging the correct answer from a set of answers. This awesome plugin works equally well on smartphones and tablet PCs. Sweet Captcha easily integrates with different types of custom forms.
Captcha - This is a simple yet very effective and lightweight captcha plugin for WordPress bloggers. Every visitor is presented with a mathematical challenge that ensures no bot or automated system penetrates the security. It may annoy some visitors but works effectively is deterring trolls and spammers.
Really Simple CAPTCHA - This plugin is used by large number of bloggers to combat trolls. It was originally made to work with much popular Contact Form 7 plugin. Users can easily integrate it with other plugins through simple PHP directives. This essentially means that you can easily extend the functionality of other plugins through this plugin.
NuCaptcha - And last but not the least is NuCaptcha anti-spam plugin that uses video captchas to combat trolls and spammers. It is fully compatible with BuddyPress and Contact Form 7 and can be easily deployed on various custom forms like native comment system, login and contact forms.
Are You a Human - It's a unique plugin that effectively deters spammers, bots and trolls. Unlike normal captcha systems that use distorted words, this plugin use games to present a challenge before the visitor. You'll need a publisher key to use this plugin. It can be used on custom forms as well as with the native comment system.
VouchSafe CAPTCHA Replacement - Nowadays new methodologies are being implemented to fight spam bots. And that's where plugins like these come handy. The innovative challenge system in VouchSafe plugin makes it almost impossible for machines to bypass the check. You'll need a publisher key to use this plugin on your blog.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Whiteboard Framework for WordPress : A Free Robust Web Site Building Tool
WordPress is the most popular content management system used nowadays. There are thousands of themes and plugins available to extend the functionally of your WordPress powered web site. You can use premium as well as free themes to customize the site. Generally, premium themes are based on a framework that is used as a base for child themes to get a custom design. However, there are several free frameworks available to WordPress.
Whiteboard Framework for WordPress is a free and robust web site building system that can give you a flexible and optimized design with ease. It is based on Less Framework that is well known for its highly optimized minimalistic code.
Whiteboard framework is ideal for creating minimalistic mobile web sites maintaining the highly optimized code. It uses CSS3 and HTML 5 for leveraging various features present in modern browsers. It also supports large number of dynamic classes and IDs to create a fairly complex navigation structure with ease.
Whiteboard framework is fully compatible with WordPress 3.0+ and renders perfectly with all popular web browsers. Needless to say, every WordPress framework supports rich search engine optimization options. Since this framework is lightweight and is optimized for mobile web sites, you can use it for testing purposes too. This creates an opportunity to create extensions of this theme to build a complex solution without sacrificing any performance.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
How To Host Your Own Powerful Email Server
Email is one of the strong pillars that drive the world wide web. Every day billions of email messages are delivered to netizens across the globe. If you're a small business looking to implement a reliable email solution for your employees, acquiring a robust commercial solution can cost you big money. There are several free alternatives to this, but not all of them deliver what they promise. Business mail requires highest degree of reliability and security.
iRedMail is a free and open source email server deployed worldwide by small and medium-sized businesses. It can be deployed on Red Hat, Cent OS, Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse and FreeBSD platforms. iRedMail also supports various virtualization technologies like VMware, Xen, KVM, OpenVZ and VirtualBox.
Its famous 1-minute installation ensures that you do not spend hours in configuring the preliminary installation with your team. You can create unlimited accounts with iRedMail with loads of features that lets you configure the email settings as per your requirements.
You can store your entire email database either in OpenLDAP or you can use MySQL. If you're already running a powerful MySQL server, it can be used to power iRedMail accounts database. The web-based Ajax-powered administrator interface provides all the configurable options and features just clicks away. The good thing about iRedMail is that it uses different open source software in different modules that makes it a robust system from the ground up. These open source software are used my millions of users and have active development community.
If you're running a small business and looking for a low-cost yet reliable mailing solution, iRedMail is one the candidates.
Monday, December 19, 2011
How To Visualize Facebook Ecosystem
Facebook is a fairly complex social networking system when it comes to various options and actions that can be exercised within an account. Large percentage of users never uses some of its features or fail to correctly understand their functioning or their implications. Understanding these features is hectic especially if you're traversing each and every option within your account. However, there's an excellent way to completely understand all the features and options of a Facebook account.
Platlas is a unique & free service that visualizes the complete Facebook account as an interactive wheel with several layers. You can hop to different sections which again explode and transform into a new wheel giving all the details related to that option or feature.
It's one of the easiest way to understand Facebook features. The design and interactivity of the wheel makes it easy to grasp all the details even by a new account holder. Beginners can deselect or select the features they need to understand to reduce the complexity of the wheel. This further reduces the grasping time significantly and aids in quick grasping of all the features.
The team at Platlas continuously refines this Facebook wheel and doesn't use flash so that browsing is not sluggish and users can easily hop between sections. If you really want to understand all the features of Facebook then this wheel is the best way to get accustomed with all the available options.
Friday, December 16, 2011
How To Create A Mobile Version Of Your Web Site For Free
There are several mobile application creating services that converts a content source (via url) into a smartphone application. Generally these applications have limited customization scope and simply present the content in a fixed format without any additional sections necessary for a mobile web site.
Onbile is a free mobile web site creation service that gives a customized mobile version to the visitors on smartphones. It easily converts web sites built on popular content management systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. The mobile version is compatible with iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other popular smartphone variants.
The web site creation process is extremely simple. First you need to create an account where you get a custom vanity url to easily maintain and access your web site's mobile version. Second step involves selection of web site template from over a dozen designs. You can also change the color of different sections during the design phase.
Third phase allows you to customize and design the home page of your mobile web site. This involves writing the headline, tagline and description. You can also add your contact number, logo, map location, links to social media accounts on your homepage. And last but not the least is linking your domain with the mobile web site. In this step, simply provide the home page url of your web site and you'll immediately get an HTML code to be pasted on the index page of your web site.
Now whenever mobile users will visit your site, they'll be automatically redirected to the mobile version.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
How To Transform Your Laptop Into A Wi-Fi Hotspot
Various surveys have indicated Wi-Fi as the preferred data transfer medium for mobile devices (laptops, PDA, tablets and smartphones). As the number of Wi-Fi hotspots are increasing, it's usage is increasing at exponential rate. An average user generally accesses these hotspots either in office or on public places. A small percentage of users setup a Wi-Fi network at home due to high expenditure. But there is an easy way to convert your existing broadband connection into a powerful Wi-Fi network for all your mobile devices at no additional cost.
Connectify makes it possible with simple set-up procedure. It converts your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot using your wired internet connection. Once activated all smartphones, PDA, tablets in your home can use it to access high speed internet connectivity.
Simply install the Connectify software on your laptop and it will automatically scan the available wired connection to use for Wi-Fi hotspot. Give a unique name to the hotspot, a password and select the available internet connection from the drop down list. That's it! Now you can use all your digital devices with Wi-Fi support to access this hotspot. You don't have to pay hefty per-device fee to use this Wi-Fi network as it uses your existing broadband connection through your laptop.
Before using this software, make sure you have a decent wired connection (at least 1 MBPS) for providing decent browsing experience to all connected mobile devices.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
How To Use Google Page Speed Online For Optimized Website
Since web site page loading speed has become one of the major factors for ranking well in search engine result pages, webmasters across the world are using different ways to optimize their web sites. If you're technically sound, you can easily deploy various methodologies to make your blog or web site a zipper. But the biggest challenge is finding out what to optimize and what's making your site sluggish?
Google Page Speed Online is a life-saver in identifying the grey areas that are making your web site sluggish. Simply provide the url to 'Google Page Speed Online' and it will thoroughly analyze the shortcomings with detailed report about glitches that's hindering fast rendering of web pages on your web site. It also gives simple guidelines about how to get rid of these problems making your site faster than ever before.
The optimization report generated by this excellent service categorizes grey areas into 3 different sections, viz., high priority, medium priority and low priority.
High priority - This section generally detects the web page's ability to leverage browser's caching ability. For example, static objects across the web site shouldn't be fetched from the web server again and again in a single session. Your web site code must instruct the browser to cache such objects in local cache to speed up rendering of the web page.
Medium priority - Delays caused by JavaScript are addressed in this section. Sometimes excessive or unoptimized JavaScript in the header section blocks the timely rendering of the web page. To get rid of this problem, you must delay the parsing of JavaScript by either shifting it to the footer or employing the ways to defer parsing of unimportant JavaScript code.
Low priority - And last but not the least is several optimization tips to give a pleasing browsing experience to the visitor. This includes minifying of CSS and JavaScript, optimizing images for web, preventing redirects, removing query strings from static sources and much more.
If you have built your web site on WordPress, the best way to optimize it for speed is to deploy W3 Total Cache plugin. It broadly addresses major grey areas mentioned in all of the 3 sections above.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
How To Make An Android App In 2 Simple Steps
Android user base is growing exponentially, and so is the Android marketplace with thousands of applications. If you're looking to build money making Android application but lack the necessary skills, AppsGeyser can help you in making an awesome app very easily. You don't need to have exceptional programming skills to build an Android app with AppsGeyser.
In just two simple steps, you can create your desired application in no time. The first step involves collection of all the basic information about making an app. You have to provide the url of your blog or web site, application's name, description, icon and orientation of the application.
The second step is simpler than the first one, where you create your account and agree to terms and conditions. From hereon, you can log into your dashboard and can customize your application. You also get a dedicated url for your Android app where people can see and download it easily.
You also get a statistics dashboard, where you can track downloads, installs and much more. Mobile application monetization is a booming market, and if your application goes viral you must monetize it aggressively to leverage the user base. AppsGeyser provides an easy way to integrate adverts within your application. You also get easy options to share your Android app on various social media networks.
Monday, December 12, 2011
How To Organize And Share Web Content Through PearlTrees
Content curation can be hectic if you're not using a relevant application for creating easily shareable content decks. Old-style content organizing services are primitive in functioning and couldn't gel well with the changing new media trends. Nowadays apart from regular content organization, you need a mechanism to pull and push web content on various popular social media platforms. This should be actively supported by intuitive interface for organizing your content is an easy way. 
PearlTrees is my choice for content curation for some simple reasons. It's free, easy-to-use with intuitive interface and a splash of killer social media integration. Simply connect it with your Twitter, Facebook or Google account and get started.
For each content stream, you can create trees with nodes representing each new web content entry. As I said before, the drag-n-drop interface makes the whole process engaging and interesting. You can either opt for automatically populating your tree with each link tweeted or posted on Facebook or you can push each node on the tree to your favorite social media network. This way, while organizing the content you can exchange information both ways.
You can also add team members for a tree so that you can make it a rich source of information with collaborative effort. People can like and comment on your entries and at the same time they can also share it with their network.
PearlTrees's strong search facility lets you search content trees within the network or on the web. You can also search for other users who are using the same service. If you're looking for a modern content curation service with some nifty features, you can give PearlTrees a try.
Friday, December 9, 2011
How To Gather And Build Website Content From Clients
If you're a freelancer building websites and blogs for clients, content creation is one of the major tasks involved in the whole project. It's like adding flesh on a newly designed website. Sometimes content filling process overlaps the designing phase and sometimes it only starts once design phase is completed. Whatever is the case, content revisions and lack of proper tracking of changes can make this whole process a big headache.
But with GatherContent, gathering content from a client or from a writing team is easy and manageable. Neither you're going to stuck with repeated reminders, nor you'll confuse with different versions of the same content. All these problems are handled easily by GatherContent web-based application. There are several phases to get things done by this excellent service.
Building the skeleton - The first step involves making a sitemap and organizing the pages in a hierarchical structure. With no restriction on the number of pages, you can build sitemap for small as well as for a large portal. Simple drag-n-drop interface lets even a layman to build the navigation structure with ease. Once completed, you can easily export the entire hierarchy in PDF format to distribute it among your content building team members or directly to the client.
Adding placeholders and sections - As soon as the page hierarchy is completed, you can start filling content sections with appropriate fields and elements. Again the drag-n-drop feature makes the whole process a cakewalk. Creating content sections with appropriate fields clarifies the purpose of each section and makes it easy for client or writers to deliver better and optimized content.
Invite and refine - Completion of both initial phases triggers the next action of sending invites to the client or writing team to start filling the content sections. Each one of them can submit unlimited number of revised versions and in-built tracking mechanism gives you the most recent version automatically.
Export and publish - Once all the content sections are filled and passed from both ends, you can easily export the entire content database directly to the content management system you're using for the website. GatherContent supports all popular CMS and seamlessly push the content to these content management systems.
This unique service is ideal for freelance web designers and small businesses who continuously work with remote clients.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
How To Create And Share Sketches Through Web-Based Whiteboard
There are several web-based sketching services providing an array of features to its users. Inclusion of fancy features alone doesn't guarantee the usefulness of any application. It should be easy-to-use with lightning fast interface delivering what is promised. I'm a fan of minimalism with bare essentials that greatly increases productivity. And that's what AWW - web-based whiteboard delivers!
It's a multi-platform, collaborative, minimalistic web-based whiteboard system that is extremely simple to use. You can use it on a desktop PC, tablet or on any modern smartphone. Since it works equally well with mouse based navigation as well as with touch screens you can use it on wide range of tablets and PDAs.
With different pen colors and thickness you can draw simple sketches with ease. Once your sketch is completed you can either export it as a PNG graphic file on your desktop or you can share it on various social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. This sharing activity involves a single click to pre-formatted sketch sharing options for your convenience.
If you love minimalistic fast productive applications, this whiteboard is made just for you.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
9 Reasons Free Web Hosting Is Not Good For Your WordPress Blog
There are dozens of free web hosting offers for WordPress bloggers that claim lots of features at no price. Have you ever tried these services and how was your experience? I am not talking about WordPress.com or Blogger.com which are highly reliable and robust blog hosting services. My focus is on other web hosting services that come up with alluring free hosting plans to attract potential clients. There strategy is to build a free plan user-base and later on try to persuade them to upgrade to a paid plan.
If you're planning to create a small personal blog with occasional updates you may opt for these free plans, but if you have professional money making blog, opting for these free plans can prove fatal. Here are some of the reasons that may stop you from going ahead with free web hosting.
Limited disk space - If you post multiple times a day with lots of illustrations, you may run out of disk space on a free plan. Either they have limited disk space or you get limited number of inodes (number of files).
Limited bandwidth - Now this is quite obvious. Amount of data transfer is one of the most important resources included in any web hosting plan. If you blog is getting decent traffic, you may run of your data transfer limit before month-end.
Limited database resources - Nowadays almost all web sites are slowly migrating to a content management system that requires a database management system in the backend. If you're hosting your blog on WordPress, you require at least one database on MySQL. Free plans either have no MySQL support or have only 1 database with very little disk space. This greatly reduces the amount of content you can post on your blog.
Frequent downtimes - Generally free web hosting accounts face unscheduled downtimes for long periods to cater the available resources to paid accounts. This makes your blog unavailable to the visitors without any notice.
Limit on file size - If you want to host a high resolution image or a podcast or tutorial video, you cannot use your free plan to do so. Every free hosting plan has strict file size limits.
Short & unreliable FTP sessions - This is yet another annoying 'feature' of a free hosting plan. You not only get very short FTP session, but the connection is also very unreliable with lots of failed file transfers during a single session.
Trimmed down apache server - Every free hosting account comes with a trimmed down apache server where several important modules are either turned off or have limits. This results in inability to install several important plugins like W3 Total Cache.
Unsolicited advertisements - This is one of the pitfalls that exist in a free web hosting plan. You never know when unsolicited advertisements start appearing on your blog. The only way to get rid of these adverts is to upgrade to a paid plan.
Account termination without any notice - Although sometimes users' abuse free hosting plans and their accounts are terminated to force fair usage policy, but sometimes accounts that are not indulging into any kind of malign activity faces account termination without any notice. This can be a huge blow if you've not backed up your blog.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
How To Enhance Your Facebook Experience Through Social Fixer Plugin
If you an avid user of Facebook, at times you may have wanted some of the changes in the existing Facebook interface to make the posting and browsing activity more convenient. These changes can be better status updates options, separate social streams and convenient information scanning. There are several ways to achieve this. Either you can use keyboard shortcuts or can use a plugin or extension to get better navigation options. 
Social Fixer is a free plugin that significantly enhances your Facebook experience by introducing user-friendly navigation changes and additional options to get more out of your Facebook account. Here are some of the features of this useful plugin.
Chronological view - If you’re a fan of chronological updates, this option is a must-have for you. Instead of showing top stories or selective updates, you get the most recent updates in reverse chronological order.
Grouped pages & events - This is yet another streamlined navigation approach that groups all pages and events in a separate section for quick access. You don’t have to drill down in different menus to access your pages and events.
Separate social streams - Social Fixer plugin intelligently segregates updates coming from Twitter and other major social media services in separate tabs for easy scanning. This ensures better readability and sharing opportunities.
Quotes in replies - With Social Fixer, you can easily insert quotes within your updates. Simply highlight the text you want in quotes and press enter. This option ensures you speak out your mind in a better way.
Themes - If you’re a fan of different color schemes and love to experiment, you can use various themes within your Facebook account. This option lets you easily deploy various themes. Reverting back to original Facebook theme is equally easy.
News feed filters - This is one of my favorite options that effectively helps in removing junk from your news feed. As the name implies, you get ample options to remove content on the basis of keywords and applications to get a more relevant and informative news feed.
Hiding read content - Sometimes you don’t want to see the already read content again and again while traversing the news feed. With Social Fixer, you can easily hide the read content to get only the fresh unread content.
Auto-enlarge thumbnails - This option is very useful for people with weak eyesight or those who regularly comment on photo updates. Without clicking the photograph you can get instant zoomed pop out of images on hovering on mouse.
Decluttered left column navigation - With separate collapsible tree view of different sections on left column you can access all your messages, feeds, games, events, groups and applications with ease. This means, you not only get quick access to important links but this also saves your time by avoiding deep link navigation.
Google any post with a single click - Have you ever wanted to query about a Facebook update on Google? If so, you have to copy paste the update’s content to Google search engine manually. But with Social Fixer plugin, you can query about any Facebook update on Google with a single click.
Monday, December 5, 2011
How To Schedule A Google+ Hangout
Hangout is one of the most popular features of Google+ used by large number of users. It's giving stiff competition to various popular group video chat services. If you regularly use hangouts on Google+ for business or promotional purposes, scheduling a hangout is the best option to get the maximum attention of participants.
Schedule Hangout is an awesome application that lets you schedule a Google+ hangout with ease. The entire scheduling process consists of three simple steps, i.e., hangout creation, inviting participants and gathering confirmations.
The process starts with giving a proper name to the hangout so that each participant can get an idea about the purpose of the hangout. This ensures only interested and relevant participants join the session leaving room for more like-minded individuals. If name is not enough, you can also provide a brief description about the hangout to clearly explain the purpose of the hangout.
The scheduling section is extremely flexible that lets the creator add multiple date/times so that each potential participant can chose the most convenient time. Later on you can reschedule it to the date chosen by majority of participants. You can also mention the cut-off date beyond which hangout possibility doesn't exist.
Now comes the most important part of including participants information. There are two ways to do that. Either you can manually type email addresses of all the participants’ separated by comma or you can connect with Google Contacts to import the address book. Once confirmed, invites are sent to each participant with a dedicated link where they can RSVP the event.
You can also enable comments on the RSVP page to get feedback from the participants. This free tool is a must-have for freelancers and social media enthusiasts who're using Google+ hangouts on regular basis.
